Cal Smith - Mama's Face lyrics

My mama loved my dad for fifty years And she worked along beside him in the fields He never gave her much but he gave her all he had Dad's the only reason my mama lived My mama's face would light up like a diamond Each time my daddy walked into the room She'd stop what she was doing And put her arms around him Dad's the only world my mama knew Mama never saw her roses bloom that year The angels came before the Robin's song Mama said she didn't mind going on ahead But heaven won't be heaven till dad is home When mama left she left dad a lonely man But he talked to mama like she was still here He'd talk about the hard times And the good times that they'd had As his old mind slipped back across the years Daddy never ploughed his fields again He just sat down to wait his time to come Then one day he said, "I think I hear a choir singing" And he closed his eyes and went to live with mom Lord, I wanna thank You for the years That they were here for me to love And though it's hard to let 'em go Lord, You know I'd let 'em go again If I could just have been there And seen my mama's face when my dad walked in